Saúl Armendáriz, a gay amateur wrestler from El Paso, rises to international stardom after he creates the character Cassandro, the “Liberace of Lucha Libre.” In the process, he upends not just the macho wrestling world but also his own life. Starring Gael García Bernal, Bad Bunny and Roberta Colindrez. The …
It’s five days before shooting commences, and Vera (Judith Engel) — it’s the third film for the documentarian, and her first dramatic digression — can’t seem to make up her mind over who should play the lead role of Fassbinder’s broken-but-still-capable-of-loving fashion designer in this TV remake of The Bitter …
Casting Crowns is celebrating 20 years of music and ministry with a behind-the-scenes look into the mission and mindset. Includes three songs recorded live in Nashville that you can only see in this theatrical presentation.
It’s one thing to open up a play for the big screen and another to shut down an original screenplay by turning it into canned theatre. Such is the fate of Joey Klein’s dirty-windshield view of the opioid crisis. Dutiful son Henry (Alex Wolff) begins his day using a spoon …
Early effort from Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki (The Secret World of Arietty) about a boy and girl who must use their magic geegaw to get to a special castle before the bad guys get them.
Early effort from Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki (The Secret World of Arietty) about a boy and girl who must use their magic geegaw to get to a special castle before the bad guys get them.
Early effort from Studio Ghibli legend Hayao Miyazaki (The Secret World of Arietty) about a boy and girl who must use their magic geegaw to get to a special castle before the bad guys get them.
A broken man with a guilty past moves out on his wife and children, over to a different city, and into the arms of another woman, looking to start anew. The world moves on until the day his ex lands in a coma and, through all fault of his own, …
In case you hadn't heard, 2015 is the year of the podcast. This is a celebration of that.
The presence of a woman director (Genevieve Robert) and two women scriptwriters (Wendy Goldman, Judy Toll) promises half of the audience a chance to learn what the other half thinks on the subject, and promises that other half an uncommon cinematic mouthpiece. That's too much to promise, of course, and …
A Vietnam atrocity film about the kidnap, gang-rape, and murder of a pitifully coughing village girl by four American foot soldiers, with one abstainer. David Rabe's screenplay is compactly constructed in its setting-up phase, so that everything we need to know about relations between the Americans and natives, as well …
As to the plot, the best you can say is that, well, you can see, sort of, what it is getting at. Really a cleverly conceived policier, it follows the tracks of Inspector Lechat (French for "the cat") as he hacks through the thicket of subsidiary crimes that complicate and …